A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog
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NoSQL and the Tar Pit
In a Quora answer I went back to a theme that I mentioned when discussing Bret Victor a few months ago. Here’s something that struck me yesterday when reading Out of the Tar Pit which is a very good essay that seems to signal the direction that many smart people think software development should be…
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SFW Refactoring
Having split the Ruby and node.js versions of the Smallest Federated Wiki, seems like authors are now moving to further refactoring. Seems like the client code, and maybe some plugins, are getting separated to further projects.
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Android Asset Studio
This is helpful. An online resource for making Android assets like launcher icons at different resolutions : Android Asset Studio.
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Two OWL Thoughts
Two random OWL thoughts : – right now, OWL is basically functional when you do the majority of writing / editing on a laptop. And use the OWLdroid version for reading and minor edits. That’s kind of obvious, but worth spelling out. What would a “tablet-first” OWL look like? – OWL is NOT the long-term…
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GitHub
Bill Seitz notes that Instapaper can’t grab the meatier plaintext from Markdown files on GitHub. I’ve noticed that GitHub doesn’t seem to play nice with other services at all. It breaks the WordPress bookmarklet I use (to write this post, for example). No idea why. Is it a bug or a deliberate thing?
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Chic
Wow! In terms of sheer web-design / marketing slickness, how the hell does one compete against Todoist’s flashy video web site?
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Aaaargh! Quora. No! (Should I learn Clojure for Android programming?)
Having contrasted Quora, positively with StackOverflow, I find that Quora is also starting to play the “word-shaping” game by which either an algorithm or a tone-deaf moderator decides to constrain how you are allowed to express your questions 🙁 No idea why they really feel the need to do this. But it basically has the…
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Questions for 2014 : #5 A New Web Stack
Dave Winer tweeted that a “new webstack” was being built. I agree. A big question is how to support / engage with Mozilla. To me, it’s clear that the new stacks needs to be more peer-to-peer and less dependent on other people’s clouds. And for that to work well we need support from the browser…
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Tweaking / Refactoring OWL / OWLdroid
A bit of tweaking and refactoring OWL and OWLdroid over the last couple of days. If you’re trying them out, thinking of doing any development on OWL, it’s worth updating. What’s up : – the main purpose of this work was to bring the OWL and OWLdroid versions of the code-base back together. They’d drifted…
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C
Good overview by Damien Katz.
Got any book recommendations?